Device for applying hairpins to curls or waves



March 28 1944. ossi 2,345,157

DEVICE FOR APPLYING HAIR PINS TO CURLS OR WAVES Filed Feb. 7, 1941 ,lhveniog GIOVANNI Ross/ attorney.

Patented Mar. 28, 1944 DEVICE FOR APPLYING HAIRPINS TO CURLS OR WAVES Giovanni Bossi, Milan, Italy; vested in the Alien Property Custodian Application February 7, 1941, Serial No. 377,912 In Italy February 7, 1940 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for applying hair pins to the hair for the purpose of curling, waving or dressing the hair in general.

Devices for waving the hair by rolling it are known, :but they are not found to be perfect while their use is tiresome and long, and they may tear the hair, cut or do harm to it while they are being used. Furthermore, the application of hair pins to a tuft of rolled hair takes place by hand and is found to be very bothersome and not practical. This causes the curl dressing to lose shape and the finger nails are often broken by the effort required for opening the hair pins and gives rise to other trouble.

This invention does away with the aforesaid troubles and the apparatus is easy to use, with simple and quick handling.

The device according to the invention, is characterised by the fact that to asuitable folded tuft of hair, a springed hair pin or the like can ice applied while being properly supported and pushed in place.

The device is characterised by the fact that it comprises, in addition to engaging means for the hair, means for engaging a springed hair pin, or the like, coupled with pushing means, support and guide means for the hair pin, and automatic means to disengage the said hair pin from the pushing and guide means after it has been engaged with a tuft of hair.

Advantageously the device for applying the hair pins to the tuft of hair can provide in combination suitable means to wave or curl the hair.

In a preferred embodiment, the device comprises a rod, of metal by preference, at the end of which there are engaging means for the hair to be waved or curled, a sleeve or the like running on the said rod, provided with spring means to hold a hair pin or the like, means to help to disengage the waved or curled hair and to avoid wedging the hair in with the running sleeve, the operation of the latter putting the hair pin in the tuft of hair and freeing it from the waving or curling means as well as automatically disengaging the hair pin from the spring or rigid means.

The apparatus, if required, can incorporate means for heating the rod, of the electric type for instance, or it can be combined with a comb or another implement. The hair pin engaging with the hair can be of any type; it can advantageously consist of an elastic metal wire, suitably shaped, bent and with one of its ends rounded and shaped in such a Way as to help it to go in the tuft of hair and to keep the latter in the inside part of the hair pin without any chance of the hair getting loose.

The foregoing and other features of the invention will be seen from the following specification which refers to the annexed drawing, which is only given as an indicative example without limiting the scope of the invention in any way.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus with the hair wound on the hair pin and ready to be untwisted.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of part of the apparatus.

Fig. 3 is a view of one end.

Figs. 4 and 5 are sections on lines. i -t and 5-5 of Fig. 2 without the hair pin.

Fig. 6 is a side view of a preferred form of hair pin.

With reference to Figures 1 to 5, the apparatus comprises a handle A provided with a rod B of any cross sectional shape and a movable sleeve C slidable on the latter.

Rod B may be made of metal or other materials, such as synthetic resins for instance, and has. a lengthwise slot ill at its end, of a suitable length in which the tuft of hair to be Waved or curled is threaded. The aforesaid slot gets wider towards the end of the rod to help threading in the hair, said threading being further made easy by the shape of the rod ends which are rounded to prevent breaking the hair as well as to facilitate unwinding and winding the hair.

In the lengthwise direction rod B has a first hollow l l of a size to receive, as will be mentioned hereinafter, a hair pin F and it terminates freely at end i2. This end is shorter than the other to allow an easier threading of the hair and make the hair pin F disengage automatically from hollow I i. The aforesaid end can be blunted and reduced in size. There is a second hollow l3 diametrically opposite hollow H which finishes in correspondence with the end of rod B With a projection 14 that acts as a stop device for sleeve C by preventing it from unwinding. Catches l5 made in one piece with sleeve C, with blunted or rounded corner angles, engage in hollows II and i3. The said catches are integral with the sleeve C; but they can be made separately and then connected with the sleeve. The purpose of the catches is to guide the sleeve and to make the tuft of hair wound on rod B unwind without allowing the said hair to entangle with the mov able sleeve and hence break. To furthermore avoid having the hair entangle With sleeve C, the latter does not adhere to rod B but has a ring hollow 25, whereas the said sleeve may have size centered to the rod, serving as a guide for the same, as has been said.

The bottom catch furthermore stops the sleeve against projection 14, and, if rod B is of a round section, it prevents the sleeve from revolving. In correspondence with hollow ll, sleeve C has an appendix I6 of loop bent metal wire and shaped in such a way as to hold hair pin F at the upper end I! so that the latter is in one with sleeve C. Appendix I6 is fixed in such a way as to allow it to be as elastic as possible in regard to its free length. With this end in view it is fixed at the opposite end of sleeve C and a hollow I6 is made in its anterior part. The free, spring extent of appendix I6 is of considerable length. This is arranged in such a way as to be able to eificiently use all of the length of the hair pin without causing difiiculty in fixing same to the sleeve, said sleeve keeping the pin retained in the cavity of the rod. With reference to Fig. 6, the hair pin F is produced by flattening its ends l8 and I9 and bending back one of the aforesaid ends in such a way as to form a marked bend 20. At the back the said hair pin ends in a widened part I! which is closed elastically in the widened end 23 of bend 20 even when the hair pin is engaged with a considerable quantity of hair, thus preventing the hair from getting free. Owing to its shape, bend 20 allows the hair pin to thread through the hair without tearing it and its point 2| can be suitably rounded to avoid scratching or hurting the skin when hair pin F is put in contact with the scalp. The aforesaid hair pin can have known bends or waves 22. v

The apparatus is used as follows: when sleeve C is at the bottom of rod B, a hair pin F, preferably of the type illustrated, engages in appendix Hi. It will be retained automatically owing to its depression 24 when the said sleeve is moved back. The hair to be curled is combed in the required way and, by keeping it stretched by hand,

it engages with slot ID of rod B and is wound on the rod.

Then sleeve C is moved in such a way as to thread the hair pin F on the lock. Then rod B is pulled and the said sleeve is kept stationary so that the curl with the hair pin comes off the rod. Hair pin .F also automatically disengages from appendix l6 when it arrives at the end of reduced part l2 and of cavity II.

For waving the hair the operation is as above, but winding of the hair on rod B is confined to about three-quarters of a turn, and then the operation in question is started near the roots of the hair and it can be repeated several times to obtain the required wave on the same look of hair.

The time for waving the hair with the hair pins can be reduced considerably by suitably heating slot Ill. The apparatus by providing electrical or some other type heating means for rod B and the handle A can likewise be replaced with a comb or another suitable device. Although only one way of making the apparatus and the hair pins an accomplished fact has been illus trated, in practice these can undergo variations of execution and accomplishment which all enter into the field of the invention except as limited in the appended claim.

What I claim is:

In a hair curler, a rod having a slot in one end for receiving and holding a lock of hair while a curl is being wound on the rod, said rod having a fiat bottom groove extending longitudinally along one side from the end which has said slot, said groove extending a greater distance from said end than the slot, a collar slidable on said rod and having a loop-shaped spring clip overlying said slot and adapted to engage a hair pin, a hair pin in said slot, said pin having a straight leg adapted to lie flat on the bottom of said slot and a crooked leg bent to form a hump adjacent the junction of the legs to be engaged by said spring clip and the opposite end portion being outwardly turned to facilitate entry of the hair, said collar serving to press the pin onto a curl wound on the rod, and said pin being automatically released from the spring clip when the pin is pushed out of the end of said slot.

GIOVANNI RossL' 

